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eṇī-, eṇi- (these appear to belong primarily in prior member of cpds. only; see below eṇī-mṛga and -jaṅgha), and eṇeya , m. (= Pali eṇi-miga, also eṇimmiga Jāt. v.416.23 ; eṇi-jaṅgha, also eṇī° MN ii.136.14 , but v.l. eṇi°; and eṇeyya, m. ; = Skt. eṇa, m. , eṇī, f. , and aiṇeya, regularly adj. but rarely recorded as subst. = eṇa), a kind of deer, the black antelope : ( 1 ) eṇi, abbreviation meant to suggest °jaṅgha, as one of the 32 lakṣaṇa: Mv i.226.17 (here mss. vaṇi); ii.30.1 ; ( 2 ) eṇījaṅghā ca te āsi Mv ii.305.3 , and thou hadst antelope-legs (one of the lakṣaṇa); this lakṣaṇa = Pali eṇijaṅgha (above); ( 3 ) eṇīmṛga, m. (= Pali eṇi°, eṇim°, above). = Skt. eṇa, the black antelope : Mv ii.221.19 [Page155-b] ( vs ) °gāṇa yūthāni; ( 4 ) eṇeya, subst. , Mv iii.70.13 (in list of flesh of various animals, all nouns, prior parts of cpds. , ending) kapiñjala-mānsāni eṇeya-mānsāni; Gv 400.7 eṇeyasyeva mṛgarājño (tasya jaṅghe), in expl. of aiṇeyajaṅgha-tā (as lakṣaṇa); ( 5 ) eṇeya-jaṅgha, having legs like the black antelope (this is the usual form of the lakṣaṇa in BHS ; but see also aiṇeya-j° ): LV 105.22 (here °ya-mṛgarāja-j°); 429.17 (all mss. so, both times); Bbh 375.15 ; RP 51.3 .